wow factor

Why buy groceries online and have them home delivered?

It costs $9, $11 or $13 depending on the delivery windows and replaces the 1 to 2 hour bliss of banging around a supermarket on weekends.

What about fresh fruit, vegetables and deli?
The spuds are the same spuds as is the celery, cheese, fish fillets etc, just like if you hopped in your car, battled for a door banging parking spot and spent ages feeling up every banana in the shop.

We could drive across the city to the markets for fruit and veg, though I wonder about the time/freshness/energy benefit.

Australia basically has two Supermarket chains. Coles and Woolworths.
Woolies are the market leader, Coles used to be but ended up unable to organise a pissup in a brewery.

However, when it comes to the Online Shopping experience, Coles leave Woolies for dead.

This week, the same basket of goods were $30 cheaper. The Coles website provides a time saving comma separated search facility that turns your result into a useful favorites list.

She who knows best spent some time copying products and prices from both into a macro riddled spreadsheet for price comparison. It begs the question of why both chains don't provide this by default.

Our delivery arrived on time, in full and we avoided impulse buys, register cues and wonkey shopping trolleys. The petrol discount voucher was a bonus.

There is potential for fresh food disappointment however, based on this weekends experience, this may become a habit.